Legislation 1942 - 1954
Federal Reports Act of 1942 (December 24, 1942) (P.L. 77-831)
Coordinates federal reporting requirements in order to eliminate duplication and reduce costs and burdens on the business community.
Executive Order 9232 (August 20, 1942)
Transfers responsibility for the sample surveys conducted by the Works Progress Administration, and responsibility for the Statistical Abstract of the United States to the Census Bureau.
Secretarial Order 281 (September 20, 1943)
Cancels the manufacturing census of 1943.
Secretarial Order (June 27, 1944)
Authorizes a census of state and local governments.
Secretarial Order (August 17, 1945)
Authorizes a 1946 census of business.
Census Act of September 7, 1950
Authorizes a census of governments in 1952 and every five years thereafter. Information on state, territory, county, and municipal governments to be collected on, at a minimum, the following subjects: "taxes and tax valuations, government receipts, expenditures, indebtedness, and employees."
An Act to Revise, Codify, and Enact into Law Title 13, U.S.C. (August 31, 1954) (P.L. 83-740)
Collects and codifies the various laws governing the statistical activities of the Census Bureau in Title 13 of the U.S. Code.